As part of InfoQ's ongoing Community Driven Research project, we want to learn more about the best practices in Ruby on Rails usage. In a first round, we are collecting suggestions for the voting options, from which we are then going to pick the most interesting ones and let the commu...

Jamie Wright introduces some of the tools, libraries, and methods used to build a SaaS system in Ruby on Rails. Bio Jamie Wright is President of Brilliant Fantastic, a software development consulting service provider and an ISV for software management applications. He has over ten yea...

LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons. A former LinkedIn team member reacted explaining what went wrong, in his opinion. Kiran Prasad , Director of Mobile Engineering at LinkedIn...

Rails 3.2, released in January 2012, has received regular updates throughout the year – version 3.2.8 was released just a few weeks ago. The Rails/master branch has switched to version 4.0.0.beta last December, and a 4.0 release was tentatively scheduled for Summer 2012. While a new r...